(505 ILCS 90/18) (from Ch. 5, par. 78)
Sec. 18.
Whenever the Department shall find as a fact that
any plant disease or insect infestation exists in any other state,
territory, district, province or country, or in any portion thereof, or in
any locality therein, with respect to which the Secretary of Agriculture of
the United States has not determined that a quarantine is necessary and has
not established a quarantine, and that any plant or plant product or other
thing, coming therefrom into this State is likely to convey such plant
disease or insect infestation into this State, the Department shall report
such fact to the Governor. The Governor may
thereupon by proclamation, schedule such state, territory, district,
province, or country, or any portion thereof, or any locality therein, and
prohibit the bringing therefrom into this State of such insect pest or
plant disease, or any plant or plant product or other thing of the kind
infested or infected, or likely to be infested or infected, or is likely to
convey infection to plants or plant products in this State, except under
such regulations as may be prescribed by the Department and
approved by the Governor.
Any article brought into the State in violation of any proclamation of
the Governor or any regulation of the Department, issued or
established in accordance with the provisions of this Act, or in violation
of any Federal quarantine established by the Secretary of the United States
Department of Agriculture, shall at the expense of the owner be either
destroyed, returned to the consignor, or otherwise disposed of as the
Department may direct.
(Source: P.A. 85-324.)
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